Canadian government has recently detected airborne elements of radioactive pollutant from Fukushima. enenews.com

A long list of political and business officials attended a signing ceremony at the Barakah nuclear power plant construction site on Wednesday, marking the installation of the second reactor vessel at what will be the first nuclear power plant in the Middle East. nuclearstreet.com

Atomstroyexport, part of the ASE-NIAEP-AEP engineering subsidiary of Russia’s Rosatom, has closed down its office in Ukraine. The closure was announced yesterday in the Ukrainian parliamentary newspaper Golos Ukraini. world-nuclear-news.org

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development is setting up a fund to deal with radioactive contaminated material resulting from Soviet-era uranium mining and processing in the Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, the bank said in a statement. nucnet.org